SUMMARY: INIT: failed write ...

From: Cristian Martinez T. (spy@inf.utfsm.cl)
Date: Fri Jun 14 1996 - 12:18:23 CDT


Hello admins.

Thanks for your quick answers.

Original post.

>Hello admins!..
>
>Enviroment : Sun Sparc 20 with Solaris 2.5
>
>When I reboot this machine, this message appear in the console :
>
>[....]
>The system is down
>
>INIT: failed write of utmpx entry:"s6"
>INIT: failed write of utmpx entry:"rb"

Here we go:

From: Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>

nothing to worry about: you have a seperate /var and that's unmounted
before INIT tries to update /var/adm/utmpx.

From: Rahul Roy <roy@bluestone.com>

This is a bug ......workaround is as follows :

Remove the following line from your /etc/rc6 file :

/sbin/umount /var > /dev/null 2>&1

Reboot after this change and you should not see the offending message.
This primarily happens when /var is on an independent partition

From: fmrco!lagoon!fuad@uunet.uu.net (Fuad Khalid)

Your /var is mounted on a seperate partition( that is other than root or /).
When the system is rebooting it unmount /var and then tries to write to the file wtmpx which is under /var/adm/wtmpx. I thinks it is a undocumented feature
or bug which Sun is aware of.

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